The YPG and YPJ are engaged in a fierce fight today with ISIS who have opened up a fourth front in the battle by launching attacks from the previously "safe" Turkish side of the town. It is unclear how ISIS can have been facilitated in this new strategy by a "member" of NATO, seemingly allowing ISIS launch an attack on the beleaguered town from within Turkish territory. The town and its brave defenders have unbelievably been under international political and economic embargo for three years.

ISIS use suicide bombers to commence attacks from Turkish territory

There have been in excess of 1000 mortars rounds launched at the YPG / YPJ forces and six suicide bomb attacks in a single day. The Islamic State group claimed three successful suicide attacks in Kobani's border crossing point, the SITE Intelligence Group reported. The group, quoting Twitter accounts linked to the militants, said the suicide attacks were carried out by a Saudi and a Turkmen, adding that one of them was driving a Humvee.

Figure 1: YPG fighters moving between the ruins of Kobane

Al-Qaeda affiliated groups have now joined ISIS in their genocide supported by hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal funding from external state terrorists and possess tens of thousands of weapons including tanks, heavy mortars and artillery captured by ISIS in the early stages of the most recent phase of the conflict.

Despite all of this, the highly mobile and motivated but lightly armed forces of the YPG and the YPJ in Rojava have not only resisted and held out despite facing overwhelming odds and international collaboration with ISIS but they have not been intimidated, continue to resist and shall soon succeed in liberating Kobane.

ISIS "open" new front in siege from Turkey

"ISIS used to attack the town from three sides,” Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria’s Kurdish Democratic Union Party, told the Associated Press. “Today, they are attacking from four sides." Turkey, while previously backing the Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad in that country's civil war, has been hesitant to aid the defenders of Kobane because it fears that could stoke Kurdish ambitions for an independent state.

Anger over Turkeys support of ISIS

Thousands of Kurds in Riha (Urfa) and Pirsus cities in Turkey are flooding across the Kobane border to support the resistance inside the beleaguered town. (SOURCE: Local TV Channels).

Figure 2: Kurds crossing the Turkish border to support Kobane

Syria's Foreign Minister said in a television interview aired Friday night that the U.S.-led coalition's weeks of airstrikes against militants in Syria had not weakened the Islamic State group. Washington and the U.N. Security Council "should force Turkey to tighten control" of its border in order to help defeat militants, he added.

Video 1: YPG fighting ISIS in Turkey, today.

The assault began with a suicide bomb in an armoured vehicle on the border crossing between Kobanî and Turkey, said Khalil and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The video footage below (taken 29.11.2014) from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights purports to show ISIS militants firing from inside Turkish territory. Mustafa Bali, a Kobane-based activist, said by telephone that Islamic State group fighters have taken positions in grain silos on the Turkish side of the border and from there are launching attacks toward the border crossing point.

See video below from point "01.18" point showing ISIS fighters in position firing from grain silo located inside Turkish territory.

Video 2: ISIS firing on YPG from positions in Turkey

He added that the U.S. led coalition launched an airstrike Saturday morning on the eastern side of the town. "It is now clear that Turkey is openly cooperating with Daesh," Bali said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. Later in the day, he said the situation was relatively calm on the border after a day of heavy clashes.

Figure 3 & 4: Air strikes 29.11.14 at Kobane

On the 76th day of ISIS attacks on Kobanê, the YPG and YPJ fighters have gained control of 75-80% of the city. As the Kurdish forces advance, the ISIS gangs fire mortars at random and use snipers, but to no avail as their attacks are repulsed. Clashes are continuing on the eastern, southern and south western fronts.

On the western front the YPG and YPJ fighters are being supported by Peshmerga and Burkan el Firat. The Islamic State group claimed to have carried out four further suicide attacks in Kobane to the south of the town. The Peshmerga are not on the front line, instead supporting the YPG/YPJ by firing mortars and katyusha rockets.

Background on Burkan el Firat, membership & objectives

The Firat New Agency previously announced:

The Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) and Free Syrian Army (FSA), including other armed opposition groups have formed a joint front against the Islamic State (ISIS) in the region around the Euphrates. It has been reported that that the YPG, FSA and other smaller opposition groups have come together to form a ‘joint operation room’ against the Islamic State threat in the Euphrates region.

The name of this joint force is ‘Burkan El Firat,’ and its aim is to oust IS from the areas currently under its control. The ‘joint operation room’ declared itself in a military ceremony in Western Kurdistan, with the declaration being read by a FSA commander.

The following was also listed in the declaration: 1. All the members who have joined ISIS under false pretences must leave the group. 2. The international community must do their part against the terrorist group ISIS. 3. All parties against ISIS must contribute physically and financially to the joint operation room.

It was also declared that the objective of the joint operation room is to oust ISIS from all the areas currently under their control. The following areas were listed: Karakozak, Sirrin, Cerablus, Minbic and surrounding villages, Rakka and surrounding villages.

YPG/YPJ fighters who have repulsed attacks by ISIS gangs are continuing to advance step by step and are inflicting heavy losses on the ISIS gangs and seizing large amounts of ammunition and weapons. See below YPG and Burkan al-Firat joint forces of the FSA crossing into the Turkish side of via the Murshitpinar border gate in North Kobane, not to attack Turkish forces or occupy 'Turkish' soil, but to repel ISIS insurgents who were allowed by Turkey to carry out their attacks on Kobane from there. (DIHA)

Figure 6: Murshitpinar Turkish / Syria border gate in North Kobane

Statements from YPG/YPJ spokespersons

YPJ commander Zilan Kobanê said that in recent days on the eastern front in particular many points have been cleansed of ISIS gangs and large quantities of munitions seized. YPG commander Ciwan Kobanê added: "We are advancing step by step. This means that Kobanê is gradually being cleansed of the gangs.”

The most intense clashes on the eastern front around Municipality Street, which is now almost entirely under the control of YPG and YPJ fighters. ISIS have abandoned many positions YPJ commander Zilan Kobanê, who is fighting on the front line in the Municipality Street area, said the gangs have been run out of many areas on the eastern front in the last 3 days, adding that the enemy gangs have suffered heavy casualties. She said: "They are now resorting to sporadic sniper fire and indiscriminate mortar fire as we have broken the back of their attacks.”

Comments from YPG commander Ciwan Kobanê

YPG commander Ciwan Kobanê added “Our comrades have demonstrated in the last 3 days that the gangs will not be able to stand up to our forces. In the last 3 weeks there have been fierce clashes around the Municipality Street area and we are advancing step by step.” He added that the liberation of the city would take time pointing out that "Urban warfare is an arduous, drawn out process. We have experience of this. Fighting is going on house to house, street to street. We are advancing steadily but slowly."

Peshmerga call for regional unity against ISIS

In the wider debate Kurdish Peshmerga forces and their spokesman Khalil Jangi have called for unity amongst all groups and minorities battling the ISIS war criminals saying:

Figure 9: Khalil Jangi, Peshmerga Spokesman

"In this picture, you see an Assyrian mother and her three year old child. She fled from ISIS in Mosul to the city of Dohuk in the governorate of Iraq and part of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Assyrian nation must not accept the crimes committed against them by ISIS, and remain silent. All Assyrians have a duty to their people and nation to fight together against the criminal ISIS."

"Assyrians, Kadanians, Izadids, Syrians, Yazidis and Kurds only salvation from ISIS is to stand together. We have the same enemy. Kurdistan is the home for all nations and religions, we are all living together and look forward to peace and prosperity. We will defend our land and people against all enemies."

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Figure 11: The tragedy of Kobane

The unspeakable tragedy of the ISIS barbarians aggression against innocence is shown above with pictures from a Syrian Kurdish refugee camp filled with children from the Kobane area in front of living quarters separated by plastic sheets at a camp in Suruc and receiving food rations, on the Turkey-Syria border.